PIC-P26J50 Proto development board

USER’S MANUAL
All boards produced by Olimex LTD are ROHS compliant

Initial release, Januray 2012

Designed by OLIMEX Ltd, 2011
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Thank you for purchasing the PIC-P26J50 board manufactured by Olimex!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION 1 OVERVIEW 4

SECTION 2 SETTING UP THE DEVELOPMENT BOARD 5

SECTION 3 PIC-P26J50 BOARD DESCRIPTION 7

SECTION 4 THE PIC18F26J59 MICROCONTROLLER 8

SECTION 5 CONTROL CIRCUITRY 11

SECTION 6 HARDWARE 12

SECTION 7 MEMORY 15

SECTION 8 SCHEMATICS 16

SECTION 9 REVISION HISTORY 19

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SECTION 1
OVERVIEW

Thank you for choosing the PIC-P26J50 development board from Olimex! This document
provides a User’s Guide for the Olimex PIC-P26J50 development board. As an overview, this
chapter gives the scope of this document and lists the board’s features. The document’s
organization is then detailed.

1.1 Scope
The PIC-P26J50 development board enables code development of applications running on the
PIC18F26J59 microcontroller. This guide focuses on the PIC-P26J50 board as a development
platform for the PIC18F26J59 device.

1.2 Features

• PIC18F26J59 microcontroller with 64K Flash

• USB connector
• 8 LEDs
• Reset button
• User button
• UEXT connector
• mini ICSP/ICD (0,05””) connector for programming
• All PIC free ports available on header close to the prototype area
• Perfect for hobbyists
• Dimensions 61x45 mm (2.4 x 1.77")

1.3 Organization
Each section in this document covers a separate topic, organized as follow:
- Section 1 is an overview of the board usage and features
- Section 2 provides a guide for quickly setting up the board
- Section 3 contains the general board diagram and layout
- Section 4 describes the component that is the heart of the board: the PIC18F26J59
microcontroller
- Section 5 is an explanation of the control circuitry associated with the microcontroller
to reset, power and clock the board
- Section 6 covers the connector pinout, peripherals and jumper description
- Section 7 shows the memory map
- Section 8 provides the schematics
- Section 9 contains the revision history

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SECTION 2
SETTING UP THE PIC-P26J50
DEVELOPMENT BOARD
This section helps you set up the PIC-P26J50 development board for the first time.

Please consider first the electrostatic warning to avoid damaging the board, then discover the
hardware and software required to operate the board.

The procedure to power up the board is given, and a description of the default board behavior
is detailed.

2.1 Electrostatic Warning

The PIC-P26J50 development board is shipped in a protective anti-static package. The board
must not be exposed to high electrostatic potentials. A grounding strap or similar protective
device should be worn when handling the board. Avoid touching the component pins or any
other metallic element.

2.2 Requirements
In order to set up the PIC-P26J50 proto board, the following items are required:

- The PIC-P26J50 development board itself

- miniUSB - USB cable

Or

- 3,3 V external power supply

Note: The board is not delivered with an ICSP debugger/programmer, which is needed if you
want to reprogram it. Remember that the connector on the board is mini ICSP (6 pin). You
may use a pair of the following devices for this purpose:

- Olimex’s PIC-ICD2-POCKET + Olimex’s PIC-ICSP

- Olimex’s PIC-KIT3 + Olimex’s PIC-ICSP

Or any compatible PIC programmer with 0,05’’ step ICSP connector.

Also, a host-based software toolchain is required in order to program/debug the PIC-P26J50

board.
Our suggestion is to use Microchip’s MPLab IDE.

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2.3 Powering up the board

The PIC-P26J50 board is self-powered by the miniUSB.

Additionally the board can be powered using the PROTO AREA pads. Provide 3.3 V to the
respective pad with the same label. Ground pad is named GND on the opposite side of the 3.3
V.

On powering the board the PWR LED must turn on and the 8 LEDs must start turning on
consecutively.

2.4 Prebuilt software

On arrival the board has a simple demo for the LEDS (blinking consecutively) and on
pressing BUT they should blink in a different manner.

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SECTION 3
PIC-P26J50 BOARD DESCRIPTION
Here you get acquainted with the main parts of the board. Note the names used on the board
differ from the names used to describe them. For the actual names check the PIC-P26J50
board itself.

3.1 Layout (Top view):

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SECTION 4
THE PIC18F26J50 MICROCONTROLLER

4.1 Features
Power Management Features with
nanoWatt XLP™ for Extreme Low-Power:
• Deep Sleep mode: CPU off, Peripherals off,
Currents Down to 13 μA and 850 nA with RTCC:
- Able to wake-up on external triggers, programmable WDT or RTCC alarm
- Ultra Low-Power Wake-up (ULPWU)
• Sleep mode: CPU off, Peripherals off, SRAM on, Fast Wake-up, Currents Down to
105 μA, Typical
• Idle: CPU off, Peripherals on, Currents Down to 2.3 nA, Typical
• Run: CPU on, Peripherals on, Currents Down to 6.2 nA, Typical
• Timer1 Oscillator w/RTCC: 1 nA, 32 kHz, Typical
• Watchdog Timer: 0.8 μA, 2V, Typical
Special Microcontroller Features:
• Low-Power, High-Speed CMOS Flash Technology
• C Compiler Optimized Architecture for Re-Entrant Code
• Priority Levels for Interrupts
• Self-Programmable under Software Control
• 8 x 8 Single-Cycle Hardware Multiplier
• Extended Watchdog Timer (WDT):
- Programmable period from 4 ms to 131s
• Single-Supply In-Circuit Serial Programming™(ICSP™) via two pins
• In-Circuit Debug (ICD) w/Three Breakpoints via 2 Pins
• Operating Voltage Range of 2.0V to 3.6V
• On-Chip 2.5V Regulator
• Flash Program Memory of 10,000 Erase/Write Cycles Minimum and 20-Year Data
Retention
Universal Serial Bus (USB) Features
• USB V2.0 Compliant
• Full Speed (12 Mbps) and Low Speed (1.5 Mbps)
• Supports Control, Interrupt, Isochronous and BulkTransfers
• Supports up to 32 Endpoints (16 bidirectional)
• USB module can use any RAM Location on the Device as USB Endpoint Buffers
• On-Chip USB Transceiver with Crystal-less operation
Flexible Oscillator Structure:
• High-Precision Internal Oscillator (±0.15% typ.) for USB
• Two External Clock modes, up to 48 MHz (12 MIPS)
• Low-Power, 31 kHz Internal RC Oscillator
• Tunable Internal Oscillator (31 kHz to 8 MHz, or up to 48 MHz with PLL)
• Secondary Oscillator using Timer1 @ 32 kHz

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• Fail-Safe Clock Monitor:

- Allows for safe shutdown if any clock stops
• Two-Speed Oscillator Start-up
• Programmable Reference Clock Output Generator
Peripheral Highlights:
• Peripheral Pin Select:
- Allows independent I/O mapping of many peripherals
- Continuous hardware integrity checking and safety interlocks prevent unintentional
configuration changes
• Hardware Real-Time Clock and Calendar (RTCC):
- Provides clock, calendar and alarm functions
• High-Current Sink/Source 25 mA/25 mA (PORTB and PORTC)
• 5.5V Tolerant Inputs (digital only pins)
• Four Programmable External Interrupts
• Four Input Change Interrupts
• Two Enhanced Capture/Compare/PWM (ECCP) modules:
- One, two or four PWM outputs
- Selectable polarity
- Programmable dead time
- Auto-shutdown and auto-restart
- Pulse steering control
• Two Master Synchronous Serial Port (MSSP) modules Supporting Three-Wire SPI
(all four modes) and I2C™ Master and Slave modes
• Full-Duplex Master/Slave SPI DMA Engine
• 8-Bit Parallel Master Port/Enhanced Parallel Slave Port
• Two-Rail – Rail Analog Comparators with Input Multiplexing
• 10-Bit, up to 13-Channel Analog-to-Digital (A/D)
Converter module:
- Auto-acquisition capability
- Conversion available during Sleep
- Self-calibration
• High/Low-Voltage Detect module
• Charge Time Measurement Unit (CTMU):
Supports capacitive touch sensing for touch screens and capacitive switches
- Provides a precise resolution time measurement for both flow measurement and simple
temperature sensing
• Two Enhanced USART modules:
- Supports RS-485, RS-232 and LIN/J2602
- Auto-Wake-up on Start bit
• Auto-Baud Detect

For comprehensive information on the microcontroller visit the Microchip’s web

page for a datasheet.

At the moment of writing the microcontroller datasheet can be found at the following link:

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http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/39931d.pdf

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SECTION 5
CONTROL CIRCUITRY

5.1 Power supply

When PIC-P26J50 is connected via a USB cable to a USB host it will take its 3,3V power
supply from the USB host source to power the board.

Additionally the board can be powered using the 3.3V pad and the GND pad on the proto
area.

5.2 Reset
PIC-P26J50 reset circuit includes R8 (390Ω), PIC18F26J59 pin 1 (#MCLR/TTL) and a
RESET button.

5.3 Clock
Quartz crystal pad is available but a quartz crystal is not mounted! If you want to use the
oscillator you have to mount a quartz crystal 12Mhz/12pF on Q1.

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SECTION 6
HARDWARE

6.1 Mini ICSP

The mini ICSP connector provides the interface for In-Circuit-Serial-Programming. The step
between its pins is 0.05".

Pin # Signal Name

1 RSTN/Vpp

2 +3.3V

3 GND

4 PGD

5 PGC

6 Not connected

6.2 UEXT
PIC32-PINGUINO-MICRO board has UEXT connector and can interface Olimex's UEXT
modules.

For more information on UEXT please visit:

http://www.olimex.com/dev/OTHER/UEXT.pdf

Pin # Signal Name

1 +3.3V

2 GND

3 TXD

4 RXD

5 SCL

6 SDA

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7 MISO

8 MOSI

9 SCK

10 CS

6.3 Pads on the proto area

For your convenience the pads are named individually near each of them. Please take extra
care about the numbering.

All pads are near the PIC18, except for GND and 3,3V pads.

PAD # Signal Name

PB_0 USER (RB0/AN12/INT0/RP3)
PB_1 SCK
PB_2 MISO
PB_3 MOSI
PB_4 SCL
PB_5 SDA
PB_6 PGC
PB_7 PGD
PC_0 LED6
PC_1 LED5
PC_2 LED4
PC_4 D-
PC_5 D+
PC_6 TXD
PC_7 RXD
PA_0 LED0
PA_1 LED1
PA_2 LED2
PA_3 LED3
PA_5 LED7
PA_6 OSC2/CLK0 (to quartz pad)

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PA_7 Vss OSC (quarz pad)

6.4 Power pads on the proto area

For your convenience the external power pads are named individually on the top of the board.
Please take extra care about the naming.

6.5 Mini USB

Pin # Signal Name

1 +5V_VBUS

2 D-

3 D+

4 Not connected

5 GND

6.6 Jumper description

VUSB_3.3

This jumper, when closed, enables 3.3 V received from the USB.
Default state is closed.

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SECTION 7
MEMORY

7.1 Memory map

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SECTION 8
SCHEMATICS

8.1 Eagle schematic

PIC-P26J50 schematic is visible for reference here. You can also find them on separated in
the web page for PIC-P26J50 on our site: http://www.olimex.com/dev/pic-p26j50.html. They
are located in HARDWARE section.

The EAGLE schematic is situated on the next page for quicker reference.

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8.2 Physical dimensions

Note: All dimensions are in inches!

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SECTION 9
REVISION HISTORY

9.1 Document revision

Modified
Revision Changes
Pages

A Initial Creation All

9.2 Web page of your device

The web page you can visit for more info on your device is http://www.olimex.com/dev/pic-
p26j50.html. There you can find more info and some examples.

ORDER CODES:

PIC-P26J50 - completely assembled and tested with PIC18F26J50 on board

PIC-ICD2-POCKET + PIC-ICSP - for custom programming/debugging

PIC-KIT3 + PIC-ICSP - for custom programming/debugging
USB-MINI-CABLE - USBmini to USB-A cable

How to order?

You can order to us directly or by any of our distributors.

Check our webpage http://www.olimex.com/ for more info.

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